Wolfgang Büchel

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Wolfgang Büchel (born March 23, 1920 in Trier , † 1990 in Münstermaifeld ) was a German philosopher who dealt in particular with the philosophy of physics ( natural philosophy ).

Büchel studied physics and philosophy and received his doctorate in 1954 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (The Relationality of Material Being). He was a Jesuit and taught natural philosophy at the Philosophical College (Berchmanskolleg) of the Jesuits in Pullach near Munich, where he had been an adjunct professor since 1956. From 1969 he was also a professor of natural philosophy at the Ruhr University in Bochum , to which he then switched entirely. Michael Drieschner was his successor in 1986 .

At the university's annual festival academy in honor of Thomas Aquinas in 1968, Büchel gave a lecture on matter and spirit in the presence of Werner Heisenberg , relying heavily on more recent insights from physical research. The magazine Spiegel classified Büchel's report as an attack on traditional church philosophy with its superiority of spirit over matter. Büchel meant (referring to the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox , among other things ), “that matter, like spirit, is above measurable time, that it is equivalent to spirit that is independent of space and time.” Büchel dealt with it later also with parapsychology

He was a member of the institute of the Görres Society encounter with the natural sciences.

Fonts

  • Philosophical Problems of Physics, Herder 1965 (and Berchmanskolleg 1957, 1962)
  • Wille, Wunder, Welt: Physical worldview and Christian belief, Kevelaer: Butzon and Bercker 1956, 1962 (also published in Spanish in 1966)
  • Social conditions in natural science, CH Beck, Becksche Black Row, 1975
  • The power of progress: A plea for technology and science, Munich: Langen-Müller / Herbig 1981
  • with Friedrich Asselmayer, Bruno Huber a. a .: Philosophical questions on the scientific understanding of the world and life, studies and reports by the Catholic Academy in Bavaria, Munich 1958
  • Editor with Ulrich Hoyer , Holm Tetens : Theory of Relativity and Philosophy, Publications of the Catholic Academy Schwerte, 1986

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to the magazine for parapsychology and border areas of psychology ( Memento from May 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Volume 32, 1990, Issue 1/2. Date of birth and career data according to Kürschner's German Scholarly Calendar 1976
  2. ↑ According to Michael Drieschner: Naturphilosophie. A necessary addition to science. In: Burkhard Mojsisch , Orrin F. Summerell (ed.): Philosophy in their disciplines. An introduction. Bochum lecture series winter semester 1999/2000 (= Bochum studies on philosophy; 35). Amsterdam, Philadelphia 2002, pp. 119–138, there 119, Büchel brought natural philosophy with him when the Ruhr-Universität Bochum was founded (around 1969).
  3. ↑ Spiegel 12/1968 , March 18, 1968
  4. ↑ Büchel, conception of nature and parapsychology, in E. Bauer, Walter v. Lucadou (Ed.), Spectrum of Parapsychology, Aurum, Freiburg 1983, 86–93 (also in Z. f. Parapsychology and Frontier Areas of Psychology, Volume 24, 1982, No. 1/2)
  5. ↑ Büchel, Parapsychology and Physics, Z. f. Parapsychology and Frontier Areas of Psychology, Volume 32, No. 1/2, 1990
  6. ↑ Büchel, On the Critique of Parapsychology, Z. f. Parapsychology and Frontier Areas of Psychology, Volume 18, 1976, No. 3
personal data
SURNAME Büchel, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH trier
DATE OF DEATH 1990
Place of death Münstermaifeld